On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, seth vidal wrote:
Mantis has a much better interface, and is much more straightforward to configure and use. Please save the database elitism for the linux-vs-freebsd and atari-vs-commodore flame lists where those discussions belong. umm are you kidding? mantis screen shot: http://linux.duke.edu/~skvidal/misc/mantis-screenshot.png bugzilla screen shot: http://linux.duke.edu/~skvidal/misc/bugzilla-screenshot.png trac screen shot: http://linux.duke.edu/~skvidal/misc/trac-screenshot.png mantis is a pain in the arse to navigate, by far
no seth, I am not kidding.
try _USING_ the freaking things. bugzilla is cumbersome (and this is well and widely known). it is also pretty freaking ugly.
http://bugs.mantisbt.org/view.php?id=6254 http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24004
http://bugs.mantisbt.org/view_all_bug_page.php http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?product=gcc&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED
when you have a lot of bugs upen and juggling a lot of bugs simultaneously (not uncommon for a development session), mantis is a lot easier and more convenient to use than bugzilla.
please, please. anything _EXCEPT_ bugzilla. the "zilla" part of the name does very aptly fit.
no, mantis is not perfect. neither is trac. but they both suck less than bugzilla.
fwiw, svn is nicer than cvs too. svn warts and all.
-Dan